Basalt geochemistry as a diagnostic indicator of tectonic setting

L Xia, X Li - Gondwana Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Basalt geochemistry can be used as a diagnostic indicator for determining the tectonic
setting of origin, because specific plate tectonic settings often impart distinctive geochemical …

A Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic reconstruction of the Southwest Pacific region: Tectonics controlled by subduction and slab rollback processes

WP Schellart, GS Lister, VG Toy - Earth-Science Reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
A Cenozoic tectonic reconstruction is presented for the Southwest Pacific region located
east of Australia. The reconstruction is constrained by large geological and geophysical …

Lithosphere tearing at STEP faults: Response to edges of subduction zones

R Govers, MJR Wortel - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2005 - Elsevier
Slab edges are a relatively common feature in plate tectonics. Two prominent examples are
the northern end of the Tonga subduction zone and the southern end of the New Hebrides …

[PDF][PDF] Tracers of the slab

T Elliott - Geophysical Monograph-American Geophysical Union, 2003 - researchgate.net
In its simplest interpretation, this observation implies only a few thousand years elapse
between'fluid'release from the slab, and eruption of this component in arc lavas. In most …

Detection of widespread fluids in the Tibetan crust by magnetotelluric studies

W Wei, M Unsworth, A Jones, J Booker, H Tan… - Science, 2001 - science.org
Magnetotelluric exploration has shown that the middle and lower crust is anomalously
conductive across most of the north-to-south width of the Tibetan plateau. The integrated …

Recycled metasomatized lithosphere as the origin of the Enriched Mantle II (EM2) end‐member: Evidence from the Samoan Volcanic Chain

RK Workman, SR Hart, M Jackson… - Geochemistry …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
An in‐depth Sr‐Nd‐Pb‐He‐Os isotope and trace element study of the EMII‐defining
Samoan hot spot lavas leads to a new working hypothesis for the origin of this high …

Genetic linkage of ecological specialization and reproductive isolation in pea aphids

DJ Hawthorne, S Via - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
The evolution of ecological specialization generates biological diversity and may lead to
speciation,,. Genetic architecture can either speed or retard this process. If resource use and …

Trace element modeling of aqueous fluid–peridotite interaction in the mantle wedge of subduction zones

J Ayers - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 1998 - Springer
Recently measured partition coefficients for Rb, Th, U, Nb, La (Ce), Pb, Sr, Sm, Zr, and Y
between lherzolite assemblage minerals and H 2 O-rich fluid (Ayers et al. 1997; Brenan et …

The formation of Mount Etna as the consequence of slab rollback

Z Gvirtzman, A Nur - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
Mount Etna, the largest volcano in Europe, lies close to the subduction-related Aeolian
magmatic arc but shows no trace of subducted material in its magmas. Mount Etna is also …

Post-caldera volcanism reveals shallow priming of an intra-ocean arc andesitic caldera: Hunga volcano, Tonga, SW Pacific

M Brenna, SJ Cronin, IEM Smith, A Pontesilli, M Tost… - Lithos, 2022 - Elsevier
Intra-oceanic arcs are typically associated with intermediate (andesitic) cone volcanoes.
However, caldera volcanoes may also form in these settings from very large eruptions …